The Gentoo Website [1] is the main source of documentation regarding
Gentoo itself. It hosts all documents that the Gentoo Documentation Project
[2] delivers, including all made translations. In addition the website
contains the GWN and its translations and several news items.

Lots of people have shown interest in the localization proposal, and
even the infrastructure team has given positive feedback. However, due
to lack of a good roadmap and proposal this suggestion has never grown
beyond what it is now: a suggestion. Between the first draft of this
proposal and now some communities grown faster than others. Actually it
is obvious that we have big communities (lots of users, lots of
translators) and smaller communities (less users, less translators). If
we speak about localized Gentoo sites we need to find a capable
solution for small and even bigger communities. This leads us to a
point where the lead translator can decide between a small localized
site including necessarily translated documents and only some
additional pages and a bigger variant with lots of translated gdp
documents, translated news and gwn plus additional pages.

This structure makes it very difficult for assigning permissions to the
individual translation teams, and even more difficult to really localize
the Gentoo Website. At this very moment, the translation teams can edit
documents of other languages or even the master English documents. English
reviewers and editors can touch documents of languages they possibly don't
even know. Although we do trust every single documentation editor, a better
implementation is advisable. We also can't give access to well-known
but non-dev translators.

We want to restructure the current layout so that the Gentoo Website is
more easily internationalized.

The Lead Translator can choose if he wants to maintain a "small" or a
"big" localized site. All localized sites will be accessible on
http://$lang.gentoo.org which will point to [gentoo]xml/htdocs/$lang.
All localized sites must be implemented in GuideXML.